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New data set helps reporter pinpoint critical staffing concerns in skilled nursing facilities
Jordan Rau In April, Medicare began using data to rate staffing for more than 14,000 skilled nursing facilities. Data from…
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Here’s what you’ll need to know when covering prior authorization
Every month or so, it seems there’s a horror story about prior authorization. Last month, for example, CNN’s Jen Christensen…
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What you should know about delirium in older adults
Delirium is among the most common mental disorders seen in older adults, with more than 7 million hospitalized Americans suffering…
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Pseudoscientific claims about fluoride’s risks reflected in news stories
In an effort to get a clearer view of how rhetoric has shaped the media coverage of community water fluoridation…
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Resources to help you cover the dental therapist movement
From its beginnings in New Zealand, the dental therapist model has evolved over nearly a century and is now being…
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Digging into high prices for rabies protection
Andy Miller Brenda Goodman This story started the way most good stories do, with a tip. Andy Miller heard about a…
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Safe spaces, toxic stress, child trauma: A public health take on the Stephon Clark shooting
Sammy Caiola When police officers shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark in Sacramento, Calif., in March, members of the black…
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Reporter examines causes of infant mortality in Indiana
Giles Bruce Way too many babies die in Indiana. In 2017, 623 children in the state died before reaching their…
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Reporting on surprise medical bills leads Mississippi hospital to change its ER billing policy
Anna Wolfe Batson Children’s Hospital has been charging patients thousands of dollars in unreasonable emergency room facility fees that do…
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End-of-life series educates both readers and reporter
Luanne Rife Death is not something most people want to think about, let alone read about in the local newspaper.…